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▪ I. ‖ mandat|mɑ̃da|
[a. F. mandat (see mandate n.).]
1. A paper money (in full mandat territorial) issued by the French Revolutionary Government from 1796 to 1797, replacing the assignat.
1858P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 238/2 Mandats, a national paper-money, issued..in France to replace the assignats which had become wretchedly depreciated. 1902J. R. Moreton-Macdonald in Carlyle French Revolution (ed. C. R. L. Fletcher) III. 339 The Directory..destroyed the die of the Assignats, but immediately replaced them by Mandats Territoriaux which rapidly followed the same course. 1930S. E. Harris Assignats ix. 225 The Assignats were to be exchanged for Mandats which were to be supported by a special security. 1955E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill lxxxviii. 45 Willing to see a currency of hard money..as France since the time of mandats and assignats. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 594/3 In early 1796 the assignats were replaced by the mandats territoriaux (land warrants) at the rate of one mandat for 30 assignats. The failure of the mandat to gain public confidence forced the Directory to return to a metallic currency (Feb. 4, 1797).
2. In France, a money-order.
1896E. Dowson Let. c 15 Mar. (1967) 345, I enclose a mandat for the price & postage, & shall be much obliged if you can get them [sc. newspapers] & post them here. 1939E. Ambler Mask of Dimitrios xii. 251, I received here a letter from him enclosing a mandat for the three thousand francs.
▪ II. mandat
obs. form of mandate. |